The Making Of A Superstar: On Rajesh Khanna’s birth anniversary, a flashback to one of his first films. Jatin Khanna, an ordinary young man from Mumbai, made it to the…

Three And A Half Musketeers: The new book by Amor Towles, after the bittersweet A Gentleman In Moscow (2016), is a wonderful reaffirmation of friendship and faith, in the form…

In his two period novels, which will hopefully expand into a long-running series, Vaseem Khan has created a wonderful character, Persis Wadia, the first female police officer in newly independent…

Those Grey Areas: It is difficult to convert white collar crime into interesting cinema, unless it is a well-known scam that affects a large number of people, which is why…

Monsters On The Mind: Raveena Tandon is the star attraction of Aranyak– the glamorous actress, who took a long sabbatical (nobody really retires these days), returns with this OTT series (on…

Matters of Faith: Miracle On Matunga Street, directed by KK Raina, is Ila Arun’s second adaptation of a Tom Dudzick play after Namaste (based on Greetings). Both bring up in…

Covid Chronicles: It was inevitable that at least a few post-lockdown plays staged by major city groups would be about the effects of the pandemic. Of all the branches of…

Kolkata Killer: Had the makers of Bob Biswas known that the film would end up being streamed on an OTT platform (Zee5), they would probably have cast Saswata Chatterjee, the original…

When the world is tilting alarmingly towards right wing or conservatism, the first casualty is women’s rights—in particular, right to reproduction, right to own their sexuality and their bodies. There is quick condemnation of…

Court Capers: Even though it is common knowledge that the legal system in India chugs along at snail’s pace, courtroom dramas make for absorbing viewing; perhaps giving some measure of…